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TIL of Wakaliwood, the Ugawood studio that made the 85$ Tarantinoesque hit YouTube film ‘Who Killed Captaiin Alex?’

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Z8Lda TIL Apple never paid a dime to the inventor of the computer mouse
Mer5W TIL that when a man from Fort Benton, Montana died in 1936, his body was taken east by train to be buried by his family. His dog, Shep, waited at the station and greeted every incoming train for six years, expecting his master to return on board one day. Shep was hit and killed by a train in 1942.
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